Carles, of Hipster Runoff fame, wrote a series in 2015 (IIRC) about this aesthetic, which he calls contemporary conformism. https://tykoblog.wordpress.com/2016/

Carles, of Hipster Runoff fame, wrote a series in 2015 (IIRC) about this aesthetic, which he calls contemporary conformism. https://tykoblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/the-contemporary-conformist-by-carles/ https://tykoblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/the-contemporary-c... I think about this article a lot, he was dead on. He deleted his blog but it’s floating around in the internet archives (carles.buzz).